Barnes and his approach to looking at art. The wall ensembles are still arranged exactly as he left them.īarnes Focus, Our Mobile Gallery Guide Enhance your experience on-site with our smartphone guide, which offers information and stories about the art and objects in the collection.īarnes Collection OnlineThe design of our collection online was inspired by Dr. Barnes continued collecting until his death in 1951.
He also began to purchase Native American pottery, jewelry, and textiles old master paintings ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art and American and European decorative and industrial arts, including 887 wrought-iron objects.ĭr. In the early 1920s, he added a stunning group of African masks and sculptures to his collection-there are over 100-which he acquired from the French art dealer Paul Guillaume. Though still focused on European modernism, his interests extended into other areas as well. Barnes continued to build his collection. He commissioned architect Paul Cret to design a gallery (the original building is still in Merion) he hired a teaching staff, including the legendary Violette de Mazia and the Barnes opened for classes in 1925. He was inspired by the writings of philosopher John Dewey, who emphasized the importance of education in a truly democratic society, and he decided to devote his whole collection to the project. Barnes chartered his namesake foundation as an educational institution for teaching people how to look at art. Created as teaching tools, they were essential to the educational program Dr. Barnes himself, are meant to draw out visual similarities between objects we don’t normally think of together. The ensembles, each one meticulously crafted by Dr. These dense groupings, in which objects from different cultures, time periods, and media are all mixed together, are what Dr. On another wall, you might see a French medieval sculpture displayed with a Navajo textile.
Masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso hang next to ordinary household objects-a door hinge, a spatula, a yarn spinner. The minute you step into the galleries of the Barnes collection, you know you’re in for an experience like no other. Barnes between 19, the collection also includes important examples of African art, Native American pottery and jewelry, Pennsylvania German furniture, American avant-garde painting, and wrought-iron metalwork. The Barnes is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern paintings, with especially deep holdings in Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso.
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